4. Why Dallas is ready to give healthy restaurants a shot. Out of nowhere, Dallas-Fort Worth has become America's new center of "healthy" dining, with a number of high-profile chains opening and more on the way. Seasons 52, True Food Kitchen, LYFE Kitchen and Modmarket are among the big players setting up shop in DFW.

5. Emerging Dallas intersection lands another restaurant tenant. Preston Hollow Village, going up at US 75 and Walnut Hill Lane, is getting another restaurant tenant. Pakpao, the Thai concept from Tiffanee and Richard Ellman's Apheleia Restaurant Group, will open an 80-seat establishment at the new mixed-use development, in early 2015.